Dulcinea

PRONUNCIATION:

(duhl-SIN-ee-uh)

MEANING:

noun: A ladylove or sweetheart.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Dulcinea del Toboso, the mistress of Don Quixote. The name is derived
from Spanish dulce (sweet) from Latin dulce (sweet) which also gave us
dulcimer (a musical instrument), billet-doux (love letter), and dolce (softly,
as in music direction). Earliest documented use: 1748.

USAGE:

“Augusta Holland, though five years George Frederic Watts’s senior, seems
to have been his Dulcinea in the 1840s.”
Brian Sewell; Why Oblivion is the Right Fate for Watts; Evening Standard
(London, UK); Nov 26, 2004.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. -Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (9 Sep 1828-1910)